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I've had a fitbit wifi bathroom scale for a while. Getting the data out got suddenly more difficult when Google bought them, and I didn't love giving that data to google. It's finally died, and I'm looking at replacement options.

In a perfect world, I could just go to a store and buy a "HomeAssistant Ready" scale. If I can't have that, I'd like a scale that is on my local network and exposes the last x weigh-ins as an API on the device, then I could write something to poll it.

I haven't seen anything like those, but have turned up:

  • a project to decode the bluetooth transmissions of a number of scales (after you build an ESP32 device for it)
  • the Withings cloud based scale, but with a well documented API

Any other good options?

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Can't you just use a notebook for that?

[–] Joelk111 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Sure, and I could also turn on/off my lights with a switch instead of having them come on when I get home, and turn off when I leave.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Who would do such a thing? It must absolutely terrible to manually flip a switch.

[–] Joelk111 4 points 1 week ago

I don't know what you want man. I like automating stuff so I don't have to worry about remembering as much.

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